Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
Canada announces $5 million in funding for Grosse Île, famine-era Ellis Island
The Green Redcoats: The story of the Kilmainham Pensioners
Over 1.1 million additional historical Irish newspaper articles go online
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How I traced my grandfather’s life from a famous photographer’s image
Do you have an inheritance from your long-lost Irish relatives waiting for you?
Australian pundit angers Irish by mocking Great Hunger, the Harp and accent
Planning for my future and rediscovering my Irish roots
Most read
- 1 "Irish? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
On This Day: John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as President of the United States
On This Day: Kevin Barry was born in Dublin in 1902
On This Day: Cork-born venerable Mary Aikenhead born in 1787
On This Day: Irish playwright Teresa Deevy dies
The Irish American gangster whose family rose from Chicago's ashes
Genealogy
